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Jason Hughes
Researcher at University of Leicester
Publications - 64
Citations - 1400
Jason Hughes is an academic researcher from University of Leicester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Context (language use) & Mental health. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 64 publications receiving 1132 citations. Previous affiliations of Jason Hughes include Brunel University London.
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Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives
TL;DR: In this article, Hughes, Nallapati and Unwin discuss the challenges and consequences of Rampant 'Community' Diversity in the context of Communities of Practice in higher education.
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Is social media bad for mental health and wellbeing? Exploring the perspectives of adolescents
TL;DR: Focus groups suggested that adolescents perceived social media as a threat to mental wellbeing and three themes were identified: it was believed to cause mood and anxiety disorders for some adolescents, it was viewed as a platform for cyberbullying and the use of social media itself was often framed as a kind of ‘addiction’.
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Bringing Emotion to Work: Emotional Intelligence, Employee Resistance, and the Reinvention of Character
TL;DR: In this article, the sociological significance of emotional intelligence (EI) as a nascent managerial discourse is examined, and a three-way reading of the writers Richard Sennett, Daniel Goleman, and George Ritzer is presented.
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Learning to Smoke: Tobacco Use in the West
TL;DR: Jason Hughes begins by tracing the transformations of tobacco and its use over time, from its role as a hallucinogen in Native American shamanistic ritual to its use as a prophylactic against the plague and a cure for cancer by early Europeans, and finally to the current view of smoking as a global pandemic.
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Potential of social media in promoting mental health in adolescents
Michelle O’Reilly,Nisha Dogra,Jason Hughes,Paul Reilly,Riya Elizabeth George,Natasha Whiteman +5 more
TL;DR: Perceptions that social media might be leveraged for the purposes of mental health promotion amongst adolescents aged between 11 and 18 years are explored, concluding that despite challenges of using social media and the risks, social media does offer a useful way of educating and reaching adolescents to promote mental wellbeing.